Grants

If you’ve ever described a heavy drinker as “feeling no pain,” you might be closer to explaining a scientific truth than you previously thought.

A TEATL grant-funded initiative is introducing new oral health care providers to teledentistry.

Hibbing Community College Dental Clinic received two major grants to modernize equipment for the Outreach site.

A new School of Dentistry clinic received a Clinical Dental Education and Innovations Grant from the Minnesota Department of Health to support technological and facility needs.

Louis Mansky, PhD, professor of basic sciences and director of the Institute for Molecular Virology, received an NIH R21 grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research for his work on cryo-CLEM imaging of HTLV-1, along with Wei Zhang, PhD, research professor of basic sciences, and Joachim Mueller, professor of physics. 

The grant seeks to “reduce the need for lengthy and costly clinical studies, thus reducing the developmental costs and accelerating the translation of dental restorative materials from the benchtop to the chairside,” Fok explained.

Specifically, Wang plans to examine Epstein-Barr Virus nuclear antigen leader protein, or EBNALP, “an EBV-encoded gene essential for EBV to transform naive B cells into proliferating lymphoblastoid cell lines.”

TEATL grants provide funds to full-time faculty members interested in supporting the acquisition of new technology that will impact the teaching and learning environments of the institution. 

A newly-received grant will transform learning and care at a School of Dentistry Outreach site. 

Faculty cannot alleviate all the stress that comes with these firsts—but Rachel Uppgaard, DDS, clinical associate professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery, knew she could do something to build confidence for her learners.